LCL 1102 Lecture 3: CLA1102.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classics
• Course: LCL 1102
• Professor: Richard Burgess

Document Summary

Romans perfected/invented glass blowing, concrete, dice, law, city planning, sewers, flush toilets, bathing (regularly), the calendar. Upper classes of rome would have much longer life spans. Eris/discordia is not invited to the wedding and so she is angry and aims to destroy the. She creates a golden apple that reads for the most beautiful , and throws it into the wedding. party. 3 goddesses fight for the apple: juno, minerva, venus. The three goddesses and the apple are judged on mount ida by paris (the son of the. He is asked to decide who is most beautiful. The goddesses try to bribe him: juno: make him king of europe and asis, minerva: human wisdom and skill in war, venus: sex with the most beautiful woman on earth (helen of sparta) Paris chooses venus" offer and takes helen. War ensues, wooden horse to trojans = filled with soldiers and burn down troy.